Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-24

! ity OF the competitive examination, the
memorable routine Of study; the novi i
ate, during which she submits to Sights,
performs offices that would blow away as
vapor, plans based on sentimentality
alone; the law Of command and obedience
try what manner of spirit and stuff is
/ in her. Practice and theory march to-
gether in her preparation She must
know, not only how to do, but why it is
done. Should physical idiosyncracies
| forbid night work or participation in un-
| pleasant operations, she must stand aside
! and see people with tirmer nerves take
! her place. Daring her probation, she is
! held as completely ct the will OF her chief
DeOphyte by his superior. "Go!" means
! going; to heec "Come!" is TO advance.
| While the graduate is on duty she re
! cognizes but one commanding officer.
The physician in charge of "the case"
ranks her always. While she follows his
| lesd she is safe from censure, but this
| general order leaves upon her the respJu-
slblllty Of watching and guarding the pa
tieRt in his absence, and her success de
ponds largely upon wOmanly wit and true
/ sympathy. Cleanliness, change Of cloth
| ing and air, diet, temperature, knowledge
! OF the precise effects expected from
medicine, Judgment of the character
of pulse ana SKIN, the very expression
Of the cOunteuance and aspect of
the eye-t1ese and scores of other essen
tisls TO comfort and restoration come
wiohin her province. The Importance of
each and all justides the discipline which
has given her the ability to stand in her
lot and fear nothing but violation of prin-
ciJIes. She is not even allowed the ex-
Z ar. -
costume. Science DEGREES what she must
wear while at work, her baths, her ab-
stinence from certain articles of diet
no less than the right manner Of hitting
the sufferer and making the bed.
HaphszaTd is thrust out of doors with
the Introduction Of the trained nurse. II
she is fit for her place the patient feels at
once such confidence in her as makes the
child lie quietly in his mothers arms.
The uneasiness at the appearance OF IN
familiar symptoms in the doctors alb
senCe, so often q serious Obstacle to re-
cOvery, passes with the reflection that eye
and touch as practiced as mis- are near at
hand. The gentle authority regulating
the routine of the sick room is not irk-
some when it is recognized as lawful and
intelligent. The pilot has the helm.
While all except the Wilfully blind
acknowledge the trained nurse as a
benefactlon to our race and age, the
candid concede the system to which we
owe her has abuses that are not trifjng.
She is disposed to magnify her office
overmuch, and arrogate 20 herself
individual Importance in consequence |
thereof, sometimes TO the extent |
of putting her personality in front, |
instead of keeping behind it. Commits |
stoned 10 hold the reinS, she is prone TO |
grasp the whip also, demands a broad road |
and perpetual right OF way. Each member !
OF the family is Outrider or IaCkey. Limi- |
tations as to number and length of visits to |
her realm, articles Of diet boUgat into the !
sacred precincts, topics of talk-and the |
like are issued in the tone Of g dictator. !
''Shal" and "muSt" are her favOrite |
lenses. Her thralIs may hate but they |
dare not dispOssess her. The bed of |
langulshing is her bastion, the pillow of |
pain her citadel.
She has procliyity, too, for decayed !
gentlewOmanhOod. Sac was welI-born, |
and lets you know it. If her greGtgraud-
father had not "gOne security" or her
father married q second time, or her
brother died early, or her husband fallen
into evil company, she would not now be
''nursing for living" Lest you might
feel yourself to be her superior in blood
ard social position, she puts you down
cOnsCientiOusly at intervals, by CritCisiEg
your family and visitors and telling you
chow much the people at her last place
made of her." but then they knew all
about my an ecedents.
Of all the dust that blinds and chokes
Us on the turnpike of life, deliver US from
tecayed and pulverized gent!lity. Our
trained nurse is good enough in herself,
so useful always, sometimes such bless
ing that she has no need to stoop to the
eVel of her grandfsther's bones.
We welcome her. We would not do
without her if we could. Having known
Ter, we could not if we would But let
Ter be the embodiment of her holy mis-
ion whenever she can-forgetfuI of petty
lights and more petty pretensions IN her
iesire to walk worthy of that Whereunto
he is called,